Run With It: 2026

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Don't Be Deceived

“Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says,

“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.” (Ephesians 5:6-14 NASB1995)

How are you or those you love being deceived with empty words today? Where I live in the USA we have many charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who serve as pastors, elders, and missionaries, who are teaching lies to the people, and who are ignoring the truths which they do not want to accept, and which they know will not “draw in large crowds of people from the world” into their gatherings. So, they alter and they dilute the gospel message to make it less offensive and more attractive to the world.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, we are not to be deceived by the lies of the enemy meant to tickle itching ears and to make people feel good about themselves while they habitually engage in the sinful desires of the flesh. For Jesus and his New Testament apostles did not teach that we can just make a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now salvation from sin and eternal life with God are guaranteed us, regardless of how we live. They taught we must die to sin and obey God, in practice, if we want to have eternal life with God.

For “the sons of disobedience” are not just all who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are all who are still walking in sin, still making sin their practice, for whom godliness and righteous living and obedience to our Lord’s commands are not their practice, even if they give lip service to God. And we who profess faith in Jesus Christ are not to be partakers with them in their sins of idolatry, adultery, sexual immorality, and refusal to submit to Christ as Lord, and their refusal to obey our Lord’s commands.

For, if our faith in Jesus Christ is biblical faith, which comes from God, and which is persuaded of God, and which is gifted to us by God, it will result in us being crucified with Christ in death to sin, and us being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of God and of his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands. Therefore, sin will no longer have mastery over our lives, but our lives will be surrendered to God (Romans 6:1-23; Ephesians 2:8-10).

Therefore, we should be servants of the Lord who are living to please the Lord in all that we are and do and say, by the grace of God, in the power of God at work within us. And this is not to say that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but that sin must no longer be our practice, our habit. And now obedience to God’s commands is to be our practice. And that is what it means to walk as children of light, following the Lord and his teachings in living holy lives, pleasing to God, in surrender of our lives to God’s will.

So, rather than us participating in the unfruitful deeds of darkness (sin), we are to be those who are living holy lives, pleasing to God, who are exposing these unfruitful deeds of darkness for what they are. We should be calling out these who are teaching that our sins no longer matter to God, and we should be teaching what Jesus taught that we must die to sin and obey God, in practice, if we want to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. For we can’t walk in sin and disobey God and have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

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Don’t Be Deceived

An Original Work / January 7, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Immorality Running Rampant

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

“But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” (Ephesians 5:1-5 NASB1995)

To be imitators of God is to be followers of Jesus Christ. It is not to imitate God in the sense of pretense or impersonation, but this has to do with us becoming like God in heart, mind, word, and deed. This has to do with us emulating our Lord, i.e. us patterning our lives after the character of God, following Jesus Christ in obedience to his commands in holy living. And this requires that by faith in Jesus Christ we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in obedience wherever he leads us in doing his will.

And the “love” in which we are to walk is not human fleshly passion, but it is agape love which comes from God, because God is love, which loves like God loves, and which centers in moral preference. It prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands. For the believer in Jesus Christ it means to prefer to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power, because we love our Lord.

Therefore, immorality or any impurity or greed must not be among us in any fashion. It isn’t that we cannot talk about this subject, for it must be talked about. And we must learn what must be done to eradicate such things as these from our lives and from the gatherings of the church, the body of believers in Jesus Christ. But we, as the body of Christ, are to be living in moral purity and in faithfulness to our Lord, and to our spouses, and we are to no longer be living as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness.

Nonetheless, in the USA, where I live, and this may be true of nations all over the world, sexual immorality is running rampant among those who participate in the gatherings of the church, or what are falsely being referred to as “churches” but which are businesses of human origin being marketed to the people of the world in order to attract the world to their gatherings. So, the majority of these gatherings appear to be making moral and biblical compromises in order to not offend the ungodly and to grow their numbers.

And addiction to sexual immorality, particularly in the area of pornography addiction, is running rampant in the majority of these “churches,” from what I have been able to ascertain. And so many people have, thus, altered and diluted the gospel message to make it less offensive and/or more acceptable to be addicted to sexual immorality. And so they teach Scriptures out of context, and they make them say what they do not say if taught in context, and in order to appease human flesh and to keep people coming back.

Few, it seems, are teaching the biblical gospel of Christ these days. So many have reduced the gospel to a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord and a belief in his bodily resurrection, but that is taken out of context. For Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught that salvation from sin, resulting in eternal life with God, requires that we put sin to death in our lives and that we now walk in purity of devotion to our Lord, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

For, if we read the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, we should see repeated over again that “no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” For if sin is still our practice, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God, regardless of what faith in Jesus our lips profess. For Jesus taught that not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones DOING the will of God.

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and

Sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my

Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness.

He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light,

From sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins,

He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and

Before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,”

But does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him.

In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin,

For it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll

Not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires

Will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will,

Receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from

Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and

In His Father, too.

This is what He promised us –

His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and

You’ll receive a crown.

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Immorality Running Rampant

An Original Work / January 7, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

In All Your Behavior

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’” (1 Peter 1:13-16 NASB1995)

This is speaking to all who are of faith in Jesus Christ. These are instructions to us in godly living. This is what it looks like to be a follower of Christ, which is not optional for anyone who is professing to know Jesus. We do not make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then continue to go our own way, doing our own thing, living the same as we did before we professed faith in the Lord Jesus. For our faith in Jesus means a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of attitude, thinking, and behavior, by God’s grace.

So, if we are preparing our minds for action, keeping sober in spirit, this has to do with taking God and his word seriously, believing what he teaches us about what it means to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God. And it is not the light and fluffy stuff. For Jesus requires that to come after him we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in walks of surrender in obedience to his commands. For if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we do not have eternal life with God (see Luke 9:23-26).

For the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is not a free ride to heaven based on a confession of Christ as Lord. Instead, it is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). For, it was God’s grace which sent Jesus to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God.

Therefore, fixing our hope completely on the grace of God yet to be brought to us when Jesus returns, we live as obedient children of God. For we know what Jesus taught us, that not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one doing (obeying) the will of God, in practice. For if sin is what we obey, in practice, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God, with Christ our Lord (see Matthew 7:21-23; and Romans 6:1-23).

Therefore, we are no longer to be conformed to our former sinful lusts and desires, for if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God. For if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (in sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who says, “Jesus is Lord,” who has salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but the one doing the will of God (see 1 John 1-3).

So, like the Holy One who called us, we are to be holy in ALL our behavior. And to be holy is to be unlike (different, separate from) this sinful world we live in because we are being conformed by God to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, but only as we cooperate fully with God’s work of changing us to be like Christ. This does not make us perfect people, but by the grace of God we should be changing, growing, and maturing in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, becoming more and more like him, day by day.

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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In All Your Behavior

An Original Work / January 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Biblical Faith Being Tested

“In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.” (1 Peter 1:6-9 NASB1995)

In what do we greatly rejoice? Our salvation out of slavery to sin to walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, all in the power of God, by the grace of God, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, thus resulting in forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God. We rejoice that God chose us to obey Jesus Christ, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled, reserved in heaven for all who have died with Christ to sin and are walking in obedience to the Lord.

What kinds of trials? Well, if we are those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of the Lord and of his righteousness, we will be persecuted. And if we, by faith in Jesus Christ, as empowered by the Spirit, are spreading the good news of the gospel, as was taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context, we will be hated and persecuted by some who do not believe.

But this “some who do not believe” includes many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are still living according to the flesh in sinful practices, and for whom obedience to our Lord’s commands is not their practice. And among them are pastors and elders of “churches,” and others who claim faith in Jesus Christ but who are still living to please the flesh. And so they will reject, hate, discard, slander, mock, and persecute those of us who are following the Lord in obedience, who are following the leading of God.

For, who were Jesus’ greatest opponents and persecutors? They were not the non-religious, but they were the religious. They were the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Jews, the Scribes, the instructors in the law, and the rulers in the temple of God and in some of the synagogues. They were the ones who wanted Jesus dead and who tried all sorts of tricks to try to trip him up with his words so that they would have cause to accuse him. And they were the ones who planned and who had carried out his death on a cross.

So, since Jesus said that if we follow him with our lives that we will be hated and persecuted as he was, then it should not surprise us if our greatest opposition and persecution comes from within the gatherings of “the church,” and from religious people and those who serve in positions of authority within those gatherings, but who are living worldly lives in accord with business goals and marketing schemes, and not according to the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. So they may cast us out.

For so many of the “religious” and “church goers” and “pastors” of these institutional and market-driven “churches” are following after a false gospel message being taught by them or by charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are dishonest, and who are teaching lies as though they are truth. For they teach the Scriptures outside their biblical context, and they twist them to teach what they do not say if taught in context, and they distort the truth of the gospel to not teach death to sin and obeying God.

Of, if they do teach the importance of repentance (putting sin to death) and obeying our Lord and his commands, many are presenting these more as optional and not as required of God as critical components of believing faith which saves and which promises eternal life with God. So, if what you are teaching as the gospel does teach the critical nature of us putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and us walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in the power of God, then you may be persecuted and cast aside as unwanted.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, know the truth. Obey the truth. And share the truth with the people of this world and with the worldly “church,” even if you get hated in return.

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Words by Adelaide A. Pollard, 1907

Music by George C. Stebbins, 1907

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!

Thou art the potter, I am the clay.

Mold me and make me after Thy will,

While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!

Search me and try me, Master, today!

Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,

As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!

Wounded and weary, help me I pray!

Power, all power, surely is Thine!

Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!

Hold o'er my being absolute sway.

Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see

Christ only, always, living in me!

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Biblical Faith Being Tested

An Original Work / January 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

According to His Great Mercy

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” (1 Peter 1:3-5 NASB1995)

It is good if you can read the whole of 1 Peter, or at least the whole of 1 Peter 1 to get the larger picture here. But this morning we will be covering just a few verses, although I may refer to some other verses, too.

We who believe in Jesus Christ with God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus are the chosen of God “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood” (1 Peter 1:2). So those who are telling you that God does not require you to obey him, they are lying to you. And the sanctifying work of the Spirit within us is in making us holy unto God, different from the world, because we are being made to be like Jesus.

For, we are not saved from our sins and guaranteed eternal life with God on the basis of lip service only. For by genuine faith in Jesus Christ we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of God and of his righteousness in holy living. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And that is our inheritance, not that we “get saved” so we are forgiven all our sins so that when we die we get to go to heaven. That is certainly part of it, but that is not assured us on the basis of a one-time profession of faith in Jesus Christ, done deal. For our salvation from sin is progressive, and we are saved out of bondage to sin so that we can walk in obedience to our Lord, in his power at work within us. For “born again” has to do with a changed life, not like the old life, now living holy lives, pleasing to God, obeying our Lord.

Therefore, the inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled which will not fade away, and which is reserved in heaven for us, is not guaranteed us on the basis of a one-time profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but rather on the basis of a walk of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living from now to eternity. And this is not demanding sinless perfection (1 John 2:1-2), but we learn in the Scriptures that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, that we do not have salvation from sin and the hope of eternal life with God. For biblical faith results in us dying to sin and in obeying our Lord.

So, please take this to heart, for far too many people are teaching this passage of Scripture in 1 Peter 1:3-5 out of context, and they are assuring all who claim to believe in Jesus Christ that all their sins are forgiven, and that heaven is secured for them when they die, and that there is nothing that they can do to make that not become a reality in their lives. But the Scriptures make it quite clear that if sin continues to be our practice, and not obedience to God and to his commandments, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, even if we did once profess to believe in him.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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According to His Great Mercy

An Original Work / January 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Monday, January 5, 2026

Unrequited Love

“Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.
‘What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?’
Says the Lord.
‘I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.
When you come to appear before Me,
Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?
Bring your worthless offerings no longer,
Incense is an abomination to Me.
New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts,
They have become a burden to Me;
I am weary of bearing them.
So when you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.’” (Isaiah 1:10-15 NASB1995)

What do Sodom and Gomorrah represent in our day and time? They are symbols of sin, particularly in the areas of sexual immorality, perversion, homosexuality, and rape (forced sex). And they were arrogant, haughty, prideful, apathetic, complacent, idle, and lacking in compassion toward the needy and the hurting. And they did detestable (abhorrent) things (what was morally disgusting) in the sight of God in willful defiance of God and of his commandments, without conscience, and without remorse.

But all this was while they were playing faith in God, i.e. while they were making physical sacrifices, supposedly to God, purportedly in worship of God. But those sacrifices meant nothing to God, and actually they were an offense to God, for they were not given in truth and in righteousness, with a desire to do what is pleasing to God, to show love to God. It was all an outward show to look spiritual and religious. So God considered their sacrifices to him as a trampling of his courts, for they were hypocritical.

Now, what comes to mind here is a marriage between a man and a woman. And such a union as this is supposed to be centered in life-long commitment to one another with regard to loyalty, devotion, and faithfulness. But what if this union is all one sided, with one person doing all the loving and the giving, while the other person might put on a performance of sacrificial love, but while that person is cheating on their spouse with another person, or via porn addiction and all that goes along with that, in immoral behavior.

For, as those of us who believe in Jesus Christ, in truth and in righteousness, our faith in Jesus Christ means that we are now married to Christ, and that he is our husband, and that we (male and female) are his bride. So our relationships with Jesus Christ should be like a godly marriage. Now Jesus always does his part, but we have our part to do, too. We must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord’s commands, in practice. And we must be faithful in our service to the Lord, and no longer live in addiction to sin.

We must not be those who just put on an outward appearance of righteousness and genuine faith in Jesus Christ but while secretly we are engaged in willful, defiant, deliberate, and habitual sin against our Lord, and perhaps against our spouses, too. And sexual sin is huge today within the gatherings of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, partially due to the ease of access via the internet, and especially on handheld devices like smartphones and via the convenience and privacy which they offer.

And God definitely lets us know, both in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament, how he views deliberate and habitual sin among those professing his name. For the Scriptures teach us that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. For we can mouth words of love and faithfulness, but the proof is in our actions, just like in a marriage. Saying, “I love you,” means nothing if not proved genuine by our actions.

So, this is what God says regarding such fakery of faith (love) which is not followed up with action (death to sin and obedience to God’s commands):

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” (Matthew 7:21-23 NASB1995)

Love for God and faith in Jesus Christ are not seen in lip service only or in performance of “good deeds” only which are not followed up with genuine repentance (death to sin) and walks of obedience to our Lord. You can sing all the praise and worship songs there are to sing, and attend all the gatherings of the church (or what are falsely being called “church”), and you can be a “good deed doer,” and give your offerings, but if sin is still your practice, and not obedience to God, you do not have eternal life with God.

For love, which is genuine, is seen not in outward performance, but in genuine abiding faith and obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For the Scriptures teach that if we love God, we will obey his commands. And if we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commands, in practice, that we are liars who do not live by the truth. And if we claim to be in fellowship with God/Christ, but while sin is still our habit, we are liars, too. And then God, who loves us, does not have love returned to him by us.

Living Sacrifices

Based off Romans 12:1-2; Romans 6:11-14 NIV

An Original Work / September 14, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you,

In view of God’s mercy,

To give yourselves to God in love

As living offerings,

Pleasing to God, holy in love.

This is your true worship.

Do not conform to worldly lives.

Let God transform you today.

Then you’ll be able to

Test and approve of what

God’s will is – His pleasing

And perfect will. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Offer yourselves unto God.

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Do not be conceited.

Humble yourselves before your God.

Do not be self-righteous.

The strength you have to live in love

Comes from your Lord God, so

Live your new lives in pow’r of God.

Be changed in heart, mind and will.

Do this because of what

Christ did for you when

He died on the cross to save

The world from sin. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Humble yourselves before God.

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Count yourselves dead to sin,

But be alive to God in Christ.

Do not let sin reign in

Your earthly lives so you

Obey its evil desires.

Offer yourselves unto your God

As those who’ve been born again.

For sin shall no longer be

Your lord and master.

Give of yourselves to God

For righteousness. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Be alive to God in Christ.

https://vimeo.com/118480946

Unrequited Love

An Original Work / January 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Have You Abandoned The Lord?

“Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the Lord speaks,
‘Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.’”
“Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.”

“How the faithful city has become a harlot,
She who was full of justice!
Righteousness once lodged in her,
But now murderers.
Your silver has become dross,
Your drink diluted with water.
Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves a bribe
And chases after rewards.
They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow’s plea come before them.” (Isaiah 1:2,4,21-23 NASB1995)

The city of God in our world today is the church, the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ (Jew and Gentile) who by faith in Jesus have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of God and of his righteousness. The term “The Church,” is also a reference to the gatherings of these believers in Christ, which is to be for the purpose of mutual encouragement in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, in practice, and for prayer, the teaching of God’s word, and Christian fellowship.

But so much of what is being called “the church” today is not the biblical body of Christ gathering together for mutual encouragement in our walks of obedience to our Lord, but they are businesses of human origin which are being marketed to the people of the world (to the ungodly). And so they have altered the meaning of “church” and the gospel message to make them more acceptable and appealing to human flesh, and less offensive to the ungodly who are still living in sin. And so many of these gatherings have been turned into stage productions in order to attract the world.

I can remember, when I was growing up, that the teaching I heard in the gatherings of the church was strong on biblical repentance and walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, as were the teachings on holy living and submission to Christ as Lord, and being faithful to God and to spouse. But so much of what I hear being taught in so many of these institutional “churches” today are soft on sin, giving people permission to keep on in deliberate and habitual sin, while promising them salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So much has changed in the past 76 years.

The change has been gradual, which is of Satan and how he works, with little alterations being made and accepted, one small step at a time, cleverly presented by charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who know how to charm the people and how to slip in the lies cleverly and discreetly to where the alterations of truth are barely noticeable as they are being presented. And little by little so many people have adapted to the lies and have rejected the truth, which they are convinced is “legalism,” which is the gospel message taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, in reality.

So God today is calling out to the rebellious, disobedient, and unfaithful people who claim Jesus as their Lord and Savior, but who are living to please the flesh, and not God, for they have bought into Satan’s lies and have rejected the truth. This adulterous and idolatrous “church” of today is this harlot being spoken of here and in the book of Revelation, too. But it isn’t the church by itself, but it is the church in a marriage relationship with the world and with the government. And God’s word teaches that we must come out from among them so that we do not share in their sins and punishment.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

Now, I do see in many of these worldly and flesh-driven “churches” a desire to minister to people’s physical and emotional needs, as good deed doers. But so many of them have now become partners with the world and with the government, and they have turned their gatherings into marketplaces to be marketed to the people of the world. And so they have diluted the gospel message to make it more appealing and acceptable to human flesh, and they have turned their gatherings into performances to attract the world, and so there is no place among them for the church to be the church.

So, for some of us, God took us out of those worldly gatherings, and he put us on the internet where we have been able to serve him in the way he intends for us to serve him. Here we have been able to use our spiritual gifts in the areas of ministry to which God has called us. And here we have been able to encourage the body of Christ in walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. And here we have been able to share the truth of the gospel with the people of the world for their salvation. Here we have been able to function in our body parts, assigned by God, to help each other grow in Christ. Amen!

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

Fit for Service

An Original Work / October 5, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy Spirit, come within us.

Cleanse our hearts,

and from sin free us.

Make us holy vessels fit

for service to the King.

Fill us with Your love and power.

Anoint us within this hour

To be living witnesses

For Jesus Christ, our King.

Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,

Come and speak to us in power.

Revive our hearts to obey You;

Live for You always.

May we love and serve You only,

Walking with You;

Not a phony.

May we always tell the truth,

And show integrity.

Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.

Purify our hearts within us;

Be transformed into Your likeness,

Holy unto You.

May we always listen to You

Speaking Your words

Now within us.

May we heed Your counsel to us;

Follow You today.

Do all that You say.

https://vimeo.com/113979906

Have You Abandoned The Lord?

An Original Work / January 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If You Consent and Obey

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow.

“’Come now, and let us reason together,’
Says the Lord,
‘Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
If you consent and obey,
You will eat the best of the land;
But if you refuse and rebel,
You will be devoured by the sword.’
Truly, the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 1:16-20 NASB1995)

What does it mean to believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives? By God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of God and of his righteousness (see Romans 6:1-23). This is not saying that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but that we should no longer be walking in sin, making sin our practice. But obedience to our Lord should now be our practice.

For we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

We are not righteous merely based on a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but we are righteous who practice righteousness in the power of God at work within us who have denied self, died to sin, and who walk in obedience to our Lord, in practice, by faith in Jesus Christ. For if we are truly born of God, by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, sin should no longer be what we practice. We should no longer be those who walk in the darkness. We should no longer be those who keep returning to our vomit (see 1 John 3:4-10).

Now God does not demand absolute sinless perfection of his followers, but he does “draw a line in the sand” whereby he makes it quite clear to us that if sin is our practice (what we keep returning to over and over again), and if righteousness, obedience to God, and holy living are not what we practice, that we will not inherit eternal life with God. For Jesus put our sins to death with him on that cross so that, by God-persuaded faith in him, we will now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in practice.

But there are so many people who teach the Scriptures today who are teaching them out of context and who are teaching that we can “believe in Jesus” and now all our sins are forgiven, and heaven is secured us for eternity, but regardless of how we live; regardless of whether or not sin remains our “go to” and righteous and godly living are not our practice. But that is a lie from hell! Yes, we are not perfect people, but lack of perfection should never be used as an excuse for walking in the darkness (in sin).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

And Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, cease to do evil, and learn to do good, and obey God, in practice.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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If You Consent and Obey

An Original Work / January 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sunday, January 4, 2026

In Their Devices, Do You Walk?

“The statutes of Omri
And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed;
And in their devices you walk.
Therefore I will give you up for destruction
And your inhabitants for derision,
And you will bear the reproach of My people.” (Micah 6:16 NASB1995)

This is about people who claim to be the people of God, but who are living in adultery and in idolatry in the worship of those who are not God. For they are giving their worship and their undivided loyalties and devotion to what is not of God, and to that which is contrary to the will of God and to the teachings of God. And they are following after the institutions of idolatrous kings and their kingdoms via idolatrous rites instituted by the idolatrous kings. But some worshipers do so innocently, for they were raised that way.

So, I want to look at three ways in which this is happening today:

Government Worship

I was born the last day of 1949, so when I attended public school and church gatherings from as early as I can remember, we were taught, with hand over heart, to pledge (vow) our allegiance (loyalty, fidelity, worship) to our government. And we were taught patriotic songs of worship of our government, as well. And we were taught that our military were our heroes protecting us and keeping us safe, and so we were to honor them. And all this took place in our public schools and in the gatherings of the church.

Now I did this for many years of my life before God helped me to see this from his perspective. Are we to obey our governing authorities? Yes, but with biblical exceptions. But we are not to pledge our allegiance and devotion to any human institution or to any king (ruler). Our vow of loyalty and fidelity should be to God, first and foremost, and then to our spouses (if married). And we are to test the spirits to see if they are of God so we don’t end up following the antichrist, and not God, by lacking in discernment.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 10:16-25; Matthew 16:6-12; Matthew 24:11-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 10:1-15; John 15:18-21; Romans 16:17-20; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Corinthians 11:1-4; Galatians 6:3,7-8; Ephesians 5:3-16; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-17; Titus 1:10-16; 2 Peter 2:1-22; James 1:16,26; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:26; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:3-23]

Israel Worship

We live in a day and time when the church has been taught, not only government worship, but worship of the national and political state (nation) of Israel. But biblical Israel is not this present political state, but it is all people of genuine faith in Jesus Christ (Israel), both Jew and Gentile by physical birth. For all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel, and all Gentile believers in Christ were grafted into biblical Israel. So biblical Israel is all who believe in Jesus as the Christ.

For it is not the physical descendants of Abraham who belong to Israel. And it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as offspring. And the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed, that is Christ. So if we belong to Christ, by biblical faith in him, then we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise given to Abraham and to his seed (Jesus Christ). For whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ is the antichrist, denying the Father and Son.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

Institutional Church Worship

Now there is a distinct difference between the church, the body of Christ, comprised of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, and what is mostly being referred to as “the church” in our world today, but which are businesses of human origin, created in the minds of human beings, and which are being marketed to the people of the world who they want to attract to their gatherings so that they can grow their numbers. That is what is called “the institutional church,” with human origins, not God origins.

And there are multitudes of people today professing faith in Jesus Christ who are giving their loyalties and devotion to these man-made organizations called “churches,” but which are being led by business goals and marketing schemes, and which are mostly teaching a cheapened form of the gospel of Christ which largely does not require that we die to sin and obey God in practice. For their goal is to attract the world and to appeal to human appetites, and so they dilute the gospel to make it more acceptable.

But the Scriptures teach that we are to come out from among them so that we do not share in their sins and in their punishment. For we are not to be partners with the ungodly, but we are to be separate. For we are the temple of the living God, if by faith in Jesus Christ we have died with Christ to sin and we are now living for God in walks of obedience to his commands, in practice. So we are not to walk in the devices of worldly kings and pastors, but we are to follow the Scriptures and the teachings of Jesus Christ.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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In Their Devices, Do You Walk?

An Original Work / January 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A Man in The Wicked House

The voice of the Lord will call to the city—
And it is sound wisdom to fear Your name:
“Hear, O tribe. Who has appointed its time?
10 “Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness
And a short measure that is cursed?
11 “Can I justify wicked scales
And a bag of deceptive weights?
12 “For the rich men of the city are full of violence,
Her residents speak lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 “So also I will make you sick, striking you down,
Desolating you because of your sins.
14 “You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,
And your vileness will be in your midst.
You will try to remove for safekeeping,
But you will not preserve anything,
And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.
15 “You will sow but you will not reap…” (Micah 6:9-15 NASB1995)

Today a familiar name popped up on Facebook, I think it was. The man is a pastor of a local “church fellowship,” i.e. a business of human origin being marketed to the people of the world in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. My husband and I sat under his ministry for a short period of time 21 years ago. But we could not agree with his teachings. So, we left that “Bible study” group which he and his wife were leading. And here I am going to quote from an older devotional:

Are They “Horribly Faulty Ideas”?

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”

Teachings on Grace

A few years back my husband and I were in a church fellowship and we attended a small group “Bible study” under the leadership of Derwin Gray. The group was studying a book by Steve McVey called “The Grace Walk.”

Quote from The Grace Walk Devotional (page 222) by Steve McVey:

"Many people who sit in church every week have horribly faulty ideas about who God is, about who they are, and about what He expects from them. They go through the motions of their religious rituals in an effort to please a God who already is pleased with them because they are His Beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased. But they think that if they don't do the right things, He will curse them, and if they do the right things, He will bless them."

I recall that I immediately questioned this statement about us not having to live to please God “because God is already pleased with us”. I don’t recall the statement, though, comparing us to Jesus Christ of whom God spoke these words: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased” (Matt 3:17). God the Father was speaking there specifically of Jesus, not of us.” [END Quote]

Today, when this man’s name popped up on Facebook, I decided to check him out and to see what he is teaching to his congregation today. He is still teaching a cheapened and unbiblical picture of God’s grace. For he is teaching a false gospel message which teaches that we can believe in Jesus, and now God’s grace covers all our sins, and even if we continue living in willful, defiant, deliberate, and habitual sin (implied, not directly stated), God’s grace covers it all, and we will not be judged by God.

Basically what he teaches is that a profession of faith in Jesus Christ is enough, and nothing else is required of us. Like he taught 21 years ago, he believes that God is pleased with us merely because we made a profession of faith in the Lord, even if we continue living in sin. And he believes God’s grace covers all our sin, even habitual sin, and that we do not have to do anything – no living to please God, no obedience to God’s commands, and no death to sin – for God’s grace takes care of all of that, so we are clear.

So, when I read Micah 6:10 about a man in the wicked house, along with treasures of wickedness, it reminded me of this man, but not just him, for there are multiples of this man in “Christian ministry” today. And “the wicked house,” to me, is the one that claims to be of God, and that claims to teach the truth of the gospel of Christ, but which is of human origin, and which is partnered with the world and with the ungodly and which is marketing their “churches” to the people of the world in order to win the world to their gatherings.

They are the ones who use “wicked scales and a bag of deceptive weights” in their “gospel of grace” messages to the people. For they teach lies instead of truth, for they refute the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles, taught in their correct biblical context, in favor of teaching lies to the people to sooth their evil consciences when they decide that by faith in Jesus Christ they can now keep living in sin because “God’s grace covers it all.” But God’s grace delivers us from our sinful addictions, not pacifies us.

So, believe the truth of God’s word and not the lies of those human beings who are teaching that God is pleased with you no matter how you live.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

https://vimeo.com/379406352

A Man in The Wicked House

An Original Work / January 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

This is the sermon that I heard and watched today, taught by Pastor Derwin L. Gray (not recommended):

https://transformationchurch.tc/sermons/jesus-is-a-better-you/

What Does The Lord Require of You?

“Hear now what the Lord is saying,
‘Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear your voice.
Listen, you mountains, to the indictment of the Lord,
And you enduring foundations of the earth,
Because the Lord has a case against His people;
Even with Israel He will dispute.
My people, what have I done to you,
And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.
Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt
And ransomed you from the house of slavery…’”

“He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:1-4,8 NASB1995)

God’s deliverance of his people Israel (Jew only at that time) out of slavery in Egypt, their time spent in the wilderness, the death of the majority of them in the wilderness who refused to obey God’s commandments, but who chose their sins, instead, so they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest, and then the remnant getting to go into the Promised Land and into God’s eternal rest, serve as a model of sorts for our deliverance from sin, our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and our eternal life with God.

For us, the slavery was/is to sin. And God’s deliverance was via Jesus’ death on that cross and his bodily resurrection from the dead. For in his death he put our sins to death with him, and in his resurrection he rose victorious over sin, death, Satan, and hell in order that, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus, we might now die with Christ to sin and walk in obedience to his commands in fellowship with Christ, in living holy lives pleasing to God, all in the power and wisdom of God now at work within the lives of his followers.

The time in the wilderness is our time here on this earth. And where we will spend eternity depends on us remaining faithful to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, living holy lives pleasing to God, and no longer living as slaves to sin. And this is not to say that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2). But Jesus and his New Testament apostles made it quite clear all throughout the New Testament that if sin is still what we practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God in heaven.

For we read in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 that God was not well-pleased with most of the Israelites during their time in the wilderness. For the majority of them craved evil things, and they were idolaters, adulterers, revelers, the disobedient, the immoral, and those who put God to the test and who grumbled against God and his servant Moses. And these things were written down for us as examples to us so that we will not crave evil things as they did and end up like them not being able to enter into God’s eternal rest.

For it is not those who give lip service to God, to Jesus Christ, who will get to enter into God’s eternal rest (eternal life with God), but it is those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of God and of his righteousness, who continue in those walks of faith and who do not turn against God to go their own wicked way without repentance, without remorse, and without obedience to God’s commands.

[Romans 6:1-23; Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews, chaps 3&4]

Sadly, so many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ today are following after the model of the majority of the Israelites in the wilderness who chose their sinful addictions over obedience to God, so they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest (eternal life with God). For they were listening to the lies of Satan just as so many professing Christians are doing today, believing that they can continue in their sinful addictions, without genuine repentance, and that God will not judge them, and that heaven still awaits them.

And these lies are permeating the church, at least here in America they are. For we have so many charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are in positions of pastors of “churches” who are teaching lies to the people, and who are giving them permission to keep living in sin, convincing them that God will not judge them and that faith in Jesus Christ does not require of them the putting of sin to death and walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands. And so many of them are still living in sinful addiction.

Therefore, we have many professers of faith in Jesus Christ who are living no differently from those who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ. For they are living dishonest, crooked, devious, immoral, sinful and disobedient lifestyles while claiming Jesus as Lord and Savior and heaven as their eternal destiny. For they are listening to the liars who are telling them that God will not judge them for their habitual and deliberate sins. But those lies come straight from hell. For our God teaches the opposite of that.

So, don’t believe the lies which will land you in hell. Believe what the Scriptures teach, in their correct biblical context, and now die to sin and follow Jesus Christ in obedience to his commands, from now to eternity.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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What Does The Lord Require of You?

An Original Work / January 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Ready for Every Good Deed

“Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men. For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men.” (Titus 3:1-8 NASB1995)

With regard to being in subjection to people in authority over us, we are never to subject ourselves in obedience to anything which is contrary to the commandments of God or to morality. There we should look at the examples of Jesus Christ, his New Testament apostles, and the prophets of old, and also to Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And if we are in a church fellowship where the pastor is behaving more like a cult leader than as a shepherd of God’s sheep, we have God’s permission to withdraw.

Now, with regard to what the rest of this teaches us, while it is true that none of us are saved based off our own works, even if they are good works, and we are only saved by the grace of God, it does not mean that good works of God are not required of us by God. They are! We are to be ready for every good deed. We who have believed in Jesus Christ are to be careful to engage in good deeds, the good that God would have us to do as taught to us in the holy Scriptures. And obedience to God is required of God.

But we have many people today teaching the opposite of this. They are teaching that good works of God are not required of us at all and that we can believe in Jesus Christ and be saved from our sins and have eternal life with God even if we continue living like hell in total disregard for God and for his commandments. So many people have diluted the gospel so much that it barely resembles the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles at all. But our salvation is not absent of the works of God.

And being peaceable, gentle, and showing every consideration for all people is never to involve us compromising truth, righteousness, obedience to God, and morality. We are never to compromise the truth of God’s word and morality to blend in with the world in order to be liked by the people of the world. For our goal is not to be acceptable in the sight of all people, but to be acceptable to God as living sacrifices to God, holy and pleasing to God, which is our acceptable worship of God (see Romans 12:1-2).

Therefore, we are to put off such things as disobedience to God, deception, enslavement to various lusts and sinful pleasures, spending the rest of our lives in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another, etc. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God and to his commandments, regardless of what faith in Jesus Christ we might profess with our lips, we will not inherit eternal life with God. For, although we are not saved by our own works, we are saved by God to do the good works God has for us.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for his return. God’s grace to us, thus, is never free license to continue living in sin, doing whatever our sinful hearts desire. For Jesus taught that to come after him we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience to his commands. But if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. Take this to heart!

For, being justified by God’s grace and being reconciled to God have to do with Jesus, in his death on that cross, buying us back for God out of our slavery (bondage, addiction) to sin so that we can now serve God with our lives in righteousness and holiness, in the power of God at work within us. Yes, we do nothing to earn or to deserve our salvation, but our salvation requires that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in surrender to his will and in walks of obedience to his commands, in his power, by his grace.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

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Ready for Every Good Deed

An Original Work / January 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Fitting For Sound Doctrine

“To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.” “But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.” “These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.” (Titus 1:15-16; Titus 2:1,15 NASB1995)

Who are the unbelieving? They are all, whether or not they profess faith in Jesus Christ, who are living in sin, in deliberate and habitual disobedience to our Lord and to his commands (New Covenant). They are all who crave evil things, and who are (by practice) idolaters, revelers, drunkards, immoral, impure, and/or adulterers, etc., i.e. those who sin against God by practice without conscience and without remorse. They are those who live in a sin cycle who keep returning to “their vomit,” over and over again, deliberately.

They are all who believe that they have the freedom to keep sinning against God, and against other humans, without conscience or remorse, because they believe that God’s grace now covers it all and that God no longer accuses them of wrongdoing since they made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. Now, does God demand sinless perfection out of us who profess faith in Jesus? No, he does not (1 John 2:1-2). But he does demand that we deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to his commands, in practice.

The Gospel According To Christ and His Apostles

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

And that (above) is speaking the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. That (above) is speaking and exhorting and reproving with all biblical authority according to the Scriptures taught in their appropriate biblical context. This is teaching us the difference between a false faith based on lies which permit you to keep on in your deliberate and habitual sin, and the true gospel of salvation taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context, which teaches death to sin and obeying our Lord.

The Letters

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me.

Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ,

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name.

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Fitting For Sound Doctrine

An Original Work / January 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What God's Grace is Really All About

“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.” (Titus 2:11-14 NASB1995)

I love this passage of Scripture, for it describes for us accurately what God’s grace is really all about. And that is important that we understand what God’s grace is all about, for we live in a day and time when God’s grace is being massively misconstrued in so many gatherings of the church (or what are falsely being called “the church”), and by their preachers/pastors. So many have weakened God’s grace to forgiveness of all sins and a promise of eternity in heaven only, but absent of what God’s grace is really all about.

For, why did Jesus Christ give his life up for us on that cross? It was not just to forgive us our sins so that we can go to heaven when we die, and not to hell. Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to become sin for us and to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, and so we will no longer live as slaves to sin. He died to change us, not just to forgive our sins.

Jesus Christ died on that cross, and he rose from the dead, to give us new lives in him free from the control of sin and self, and so we will now walk with him in surrender to his will, in submission to him as Lord, in obedience to his commands in holy living. Sin is to no longer have mastery over our lives to where we habitually and deliberately obey its lusts. For Jesus died to set us free from our addiction to sin. And now Jesus Christ is to be Lord and Master of our lives, directing our paths and leading us in his righteousness.

God’s grace, therefore, doesn’t just pardon our sins and give us the hope of eternity with God in heaven, but his grace instructs us to deny (renounce) ungodliness and worldly passions and desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. For redemption is not just about forgiveness, but it is Jesus buying us back for God with his blood, out of our bondage to sin, so we will now serve our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living, by the grace and power of God.

But then we have so many people today teaching that God requires nothing of us other than a profession of faith in him and a belief in his death and resurrection. But Jesus gave himself for us to deliver us out of our addiction to sin so we will now live for him, as his possession, under God’s control, zealous for good deeds. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (see Ephesians 2:8-10, and don’t leave out verse 10).

By Your Grace

An Original Work / June 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Speak Your words to my heart,

Let Your grace and love impart.

Be to me all I need

To love and serve Christ my King;

To love and serve Christ my King.

Change my heart; be like You;

Let me love and serve in truth.

Guide my steps ev’ry day,

As I bow my knees and pray;

As I bow my knees and pray.

Love You, Lord. You love me.

You died so that I’d go free

From my sin; pure within;

By Your grace I’m saved from sin;

By Your grace I’m saved from sin.

Invite You in my heart;

Now I have a brand new start.

Repented of my sin,

So that I’d be cleansed within;

So that I’d be cleansed within.

Live for You ev’ry day,

List’ning to the words you say.

Make You Lord of my heart;

Be Your witness, grace impart;

Be Your witness, grace impart.

Obey Your ev’ry word;

Do the things I’ve seen and heard.

Your word, Lord, in me burns,

While I wait for Your return;

While I wait for Your return.

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What God’s Grace is Really All About

An Original Work / January 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Friday, January 2, 2026

Desiring the Favor of God

“Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.
O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,
That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen evil.
Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.” (Psalm 90:13-17 NASB1995)

We live in troubled times. I believe God is judging the world right now, and that he is definitely judging the nation where I live, which is the USA. Evil abounds here and in the world, as a whole, and so many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ are living no different from the world. They are still making sin their practice, and obedience to our Lord’s commands is not their practice. For they have accepted an altered version of the gospel of Christ which is contrary to the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles, for it does not require death to sin and obedience to our Lord.

But not everyone is buying into this cheapened and altered “gospel” message, although it appears as though the majority have. For, it would seem as though we are living in times similar to those when the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years where the majority of them were still living according to the flesh, and not according to the teachings of God. The majority were idolaters, revelers, drunkards, rebels, disobedient, and those who were living in immorality and who craved evil things. And they set the example for us in how we are not to live in sin, disobeying our Lord.

But for the Lord to return to our nation, and to have compassion on us in order to forgive us our (the nation’s) sins, the people of God, or those who profess to be of faith in Jesus Christ, need to repent of their idolatries and their thirst for what is not of God but for what is sinful, especially as it relates to immorality, sensuality, and worldly living. They need to repent of their apathy and their lack of concern for holy living and for putting the pleasures of this world ahead of or in place of God, and for their lack of concern over those in the world who are in need of a Savior from their sins.

For how can we expect the Lord to return to our nation if the people of this nation who claim to believe in Jesus will not return to him? How can we expect God to forgive the people of this nation who claim him as their God if they refuse to repent of their sins, but if they continue to go their own stubborn way, living however they want for the pleasures this world has to offer them? If we want the Lord to have compassion on our nation, we need to bow to him as Lord, and follow him in obedience to his commands. So, if we want God’s favor, we need to submit to him as Lord of our lives.

Now not one of us is absolutely perfect in every respect, for even as followers of Christ we are still clay in the hands of the Potter (God), being shaped and molded into the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, which is a lifelong process of sanctification. But lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin and disobedience to our Lord and to his commands. For if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God, even if we profess Jesus with our lips. So, if we want God’s favor, we need to submit to him as master of our lives.

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

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